Childhood by Lily Herzberg. The South African diamond rush of the 1930s is the setting for this moving tale; a child's account of one of the very few female diamond diggers of the time - who was also a mother.

Producer Andy Jordan

Contributors

Unknown: Margery Mason

Unknown: Lily Herzberg.

Producer: Andy Jordan

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910331]

Unknown: Margery Mason

Unknown: Lily Herzberg.

Producer: Andy Jordan

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910407]

Further Travels with Henry Written and read by Collin Johnson.

Following last year's popular Travels with Henry, the story continues, describing the author's honeymoon and his experiences performing his one-man Henry V to farmers in New England, USA.

Director Andy Jordan. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown: Henry Written

Read By: Collin Johnson.

Director: Andy Jordan.

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910407]

Unknown: Henry Written

Read By: Collin Johnson.

Director: Andy Jordan.

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910414]

Queen Victoria Is Very III

Janet Henfrey reads from the autobiography of Katherine Moore , who went up to Oxford in 1918, the year of the great flu epidemic. At that time, women were not allowed to take degrees as women's education was not considered important or even very proper. Producer Tessa Kendall

Contributors

Unknown: Janet Henfrey

Unknown: Katherine Moore

Producer: Tessa Kendall

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910414]

Unknown: Janet Henfrey

Unknown: Katherine Moore

Producer: Tessa Kendall

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910421]

Pip Torrens reads from The Prickotty Bush by Montagu Don.

A diary of his work creating a garden in Herefordshire.

Abridged by Georgina Brown Producer Marilyn Imrie

Contributors

Unknown: Montagu Don.

Abridged By: Georgina Brown

Producer: Marilyn Imrie

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910421]

Unknown: Montagu Don.

Abridged By: Georgina Brown

Producer: Marilyn Imrie

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910428]

To School Through the Fields: an Irish

Country Childhood Maggie Shevlin reads from Alice Taylor 's account of growing up on a farm in Co Cork, Ireland, in the 1940s. Abridged by Georgina Brown Producer Marilyn Imne

Contributors

Unknown: Maggie Shevlin

Unknown: Alice Taylor

Abridged By: Georgina Brown

Producer: Marilyn Imne

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910428]

Unknown: Maggie Shevlin

Unknown: Alice Taylor

Abridged By: Georgina Brown

Producer: Marilyn Imne

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910505]

The last in the series of non-fictional readings. A Short Walk from Harrods

Dirk Bogarde surveys the full circle that has brought him back to London.

Abridged from a piece in the Independent on Sunday Director Janet Whitaker

Contributors

Director: Janet Whitaker

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910505]

Director: Janet Whitaker

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910707]

The return of the series of non-fictional readings.

A Passage to England by Nirad C Chaudhuri.

In 1955, Chaudhuri spent five brief weeks discovering England. In this extract he presents his view of the English attitude towards love.

Read by Sam Dastor. Abridged by Georgina Brown Producer Marilyn Imrie

Contributors

Unknown: Nirad C Chaudhuri.

Read By: Sam Dastor.

Abridged By: Georgina Brown

Producer: Marilyn Imrie

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910707]

Unknown: Nirad C Chaudhuri.

Read By: Sam Dastor.

Abridged By: Georgina Brown

Producer: Marilyn Imrie

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910714]

Pack My Bag

William Rushton reads from Henry Green 's autobiography.

In 1939, anticipating the outbreak of war and despairing of surviving, Henry Green set down recollections of upper-class English life in the 1920s and 30s.

Abridged by Georgina Brown Producer Marilyn Imrie

Contributors

Unknown: William Rushton

Unknown: Henry Green

Abridged By: Georgina Brown

Producer: Marilyn Imrie

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910714]

Unknown: William Rushton

Unknown: Henry Green

Abridged By: Georgina Brown

Producer: Marilyn Imrie

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910721]

Clem and the Clubs

Written and read by Margery Mason.

A touching narrative about the author's entree into the acting profession in 1927 - performing in working men's clubs with her mother's company, the Nora Clements Players. Director Andy Jordan. Stereo

Contributors

Read By: Margery Mason.

Director: Andy Jordan.

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910721]

Read By: Margery Mason.

Director: Andy Jordan.

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910728]

Scenes from an Immaculate Mistake

Reading from his recent autobiography, novelist

Paul Bailey remembers a formidable but generous mother, the effect of Charles Dickens on his father, the delights of the wireless and a curious need to walk the whole of London.

Producer Duncan Minshull

Contributors

Unknown: Paul Bailey

Unknown: Charles Dickens

Producer: Duncan Minshull

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910728]

Unknown: Paul Bailey

Unknown: Charles Dickens

Producer: Duncan Minshull

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910731]

Pip Torrens reads from The Prickotty Bush, the story of a garden by Montagu Don. The book is his diary of the work involved in creating a garden in Herefordshire. Abridged by Georgina Brown Producer Marilyn Imrie

Contributors

Unknown: Pip Torrens

Garden By: Montagu Don.

Abridged By: Georgina Brown

Producer: Marilyn Imrie

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910731]

Unknown: Pip Torrens

Garden By: Montagu Don.

Abridged By: Georgina Brown

Producer: Marilyn Imrie

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910804]

Journey Home to Mother Gonga

Written and read by Carolyn Nandy.

Set in Ghana, a tale of dignity and humour in the face of death, and the fulfilling of one culture's customs while living in another.

Director Andy Jordan. Stereo

Contributors

Read By: Carolyn Nandy.

Director: Andy Jordan.

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910804]

Read By: Carolyn Nandy.

Director: Andy Jordan.

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910807]

Peter Langan : a Memoir

Brian Sewell reads from Peter Langan 's A Life with Food.

Abridged by Brian Sewell Producer Ned Chaillet Stereo

Contributors

Unknown: Peter Langan

Unknown: Brian Sewell

Unknown: Peter Langan

Abridged By: Brian Sewell

Producer: Ned Chaillet

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910807]

Unknown: Peter Langan

Unknown: Brian Sewell

Abridged By: Brian Sewell

Producer: Ned Chaillet

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910811]

Into the Stratosphere by Auguste Piccard.

Read by Chris Wilkinson. The first ascent into the stratosphere in a balloon with an airtight cabin in 1930 was to have far-reaching consequences for modern aviation.

South African novelist and essayist Olive Schreiner has a claim to be the pioneer of modem feminism. Gillian Cally reads extracts from her writings.

Producer Dave Sheasby. Stereo

Genome: [r4 Bd=19920726]

Unknown: Olive Schreiner

Producer: Dave Sheasby.

Genome: [r4 Bd=19920802]

Niall Sean O'Casey 's son Niall died of leukaemia a few weeks before his 21st brithday. For four years the Irish playwright kept a journal of his grief, which was finally published last year. Denys Hawthorne reads.

Producer Ned Chaillet. Stereo

Genome: [r4 Bd=19920802]

Unknown: Niall Sean O'Casey

Unknown: Denys Hawthorne

Producer: Ned Chaillet.

Genome: [r4 Bd=19920809]

John Barleycorn

Jack London was larger than life in everything, including his drinking binges. Three years before he died, he published this account of his struggles and obsession with the bottle. Read by Bob Sherman.

Producer Brian Miller. Stereo

Genome: [r4 Bd=19920809]

Unknown: John Barleycorn

Unknown: Jack London

Read By: Bob Sherman.

Producer: Brian Miller.

Genome: [r4 Bd=19920816]

A Turn in the South

On the 15th anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley , novelist and travel writer V S Naipaul recalls a visit to Graceland, the Presley mansion on a hill, and Nashville, the capital of country music.

Read by Sam Dastor. Producer Will Cantopher Stereo

Genome: [r4 Bd=19920816]

Unknown: Elvis Presley

Read By: Sam Dastor.

Genome: [r4 Bd=19920823]

Adventures of a Super-Tramp by W H Davies.

These unique memoirs were published in 1908 by a young Englishman who went "on the road" for several years in the USA in the 1890s and early 1900s. The gentle and warm style has made this collection a favourite for more than 80 years.

Read by Hugh Dickson. Producer Brian Miller. Stereo

Genome: [r4 Bd=19920823]

Unknown: H Davies.

Read By: Hugh Dickson.

Producer: Brian Miller.

Genome: [r4 Bd=19920906]

Fragments of a Life The Road to Auschwitz

Hedi Fried reads abridged extracts from her autobiography.

The true and harrowing story of what happened to one Jewish family during the Nazi occupation of Hungary during the Second World War. Director Andy Jordan Stereo

Genome: [r4 Bd=19920906]

Director: Andy Jordan

Genome: [r4 Bd=19920913]

The Wonderful

Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands Mary Seacole 's autobiography, a bestseller when it was originally published in 1857, chronicles her travels and experiences for a Victorian public. Bom in Jamaica in 1805, Mary was a notable figure in the Crimean War and deserves to stand beside Florence

Nightingale but is seldom accorded even a footnote today. Yet, this remarkable lady earned medals for her bravery and won the admiration of the Victorian world she lived in. Read by Joan-Ann Maynard.

Abridged by Elizabeth Bradbury Producer Tracey Neale

Genome: [r4 Bd=19920913]

Unknown: Mrs Seacole

Unknown: Mary Seacole

Read By: Joan-Ann Maynard.

Abridged By: Elizabeth Bradbury

Producer: Tracey Neale

Genome: [r4 Bd=19921115]

A new series begins with El Alamein by Peter Luke. On the moonlit night of 23 October 1942, at 10.00pm precisely, the British launched their infantry attack at el-Alamein. One of the young officers, the playwright Peter Luke , remembers the battle as he muddled through it. Producer John Theocharis.

Stereo

Genome: [r4 Bd=19921115]

Unknown: El Alamein

Unknown: Peter Luke.

Producer: John Theocharis.

Genome: [r4 Bd=19921122]

Low Life by Jeffrey Bernard.

From the columns of The

Spectator, the paunchy underbelly of Soho life seen through the red-rimmed eyes of Jeffrey Bernard and read by his brother. Oliver.

Producer David Benedictus

Genome: [r4 Bd=19921122]

Unknown: Jeffrey Bernard.

Producer: David Benedictus

Genome: [r4 Bd=19921129]

Goodbye Little England

Clancy Sigal was a refugee from McCarthyism who made his home and his living in Britain for 30 years. On the eve of Major's accession to power he returned to California.

This is a wry look back at those years and a permanent foreigner's view of life in Britain as lived today.

Read by Lewis Hancock. Producer Dave Sheasby

Genome: [r4 Bd=19921129]

Read By: Lewis Hancock.

Producer: Dave Sheasby

Genome: [r4 Bd=19921206]

No Fur, No Feathers At the beginning of last year the actress

Caroline Blakiston set about learning her lines for the role of the eccentric governess in Chekhov's The Cherry

Orchard. This time though the lines were in the original Russian. A couple of months later she was on stage by the Black Sea, the lone English performer with the provincial theatre company of Taganrog,

Chekhov's birthplace. As opening night arrived, the cast greeted her with: "No fur, no feathers" - the Russian equivalent of "break a leg".

Producer Richard Bannerman

Genome: [r4 Bd=19921206]

Unknown: Caroline Blakiston

Producer: Richard Bannerman

Genome: [r4 Bd=19921220]

American Journals by Albert Camus.

In the late 1940s, Camus travelled first to the United States, then to South

America. His journal of these journeys provides a fascinating insight into the mind of one of the most original writers of the century. Read by Clive Merrison.

Abridged and produced by Cherry Cookson. Stereo

Genome: [r4 Bd=19921220]

Unknown: Albert Camus.

Read By: Clive Merrison.

Produced By: Cherry Cookson.

Genome: [r4 Bd=19921227]

A Smell of Burning

In December 1942, a 17-year-old Russian girl left her high school to join an Airfield Maintenance

Battalion in the Leningrad region. For three years

Inna Froug kept a diary: the account of a spirited girl quickly maturing in the face of harsh reality. Abridged and read by Elizabeth Morgan.

Director John Theocharis

Genome: [r4 Bd=19921227]

Unknown: Inna Froug

Read By: Elizabeth Morgan.

Director: John Theocharis

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930321]

The Tight Red

Rope

The subject of motherhood inspires poems of extraordinary passion and vitality. Katie Campbell presents a special collection for Mother's Day: from the formal musings of the 17th-century literary ladies to the elation and despair of contemporary women poets. The readers are Jenny Agutter and Adjoa Andoh.

Producer Claire Grove

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930321]

Unknown: Katie Campbell

Unknown: Jenny Agutter

Producer: Claire Grove

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930328]

The Endless Knot by Kurt Diemberger.

Read by Frederick Jaeger. A mountaineering love story, Kurt Diemberger 's account of climbing K2 with Julie Tullis is one of high drama and heroic endurance, of triumph followed by tragedy. Adapted and produced by Keith Hindell

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930328]

Unknown: Kurt Diemberger.

Read By: Frederick Jaeger.

Unknown: Julie Tullis

Produced By: Keith Hindell

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930404]

Evenings in the Orchestra by Hector Berlioz. Berlioz often travelled across Europe with an orchestra, and the tales told on these travels were recorded by him and published in 1852. Tim Pigott-Smith reads a selection of these stories.

The scene is the orchestra pit of a provincial opera house, the cast the conductor and musicians. Translated by C R Fortescue Abridged by Davena Briggs Producer Tracy Neale

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930404]

Unknown: Tim Pigott-Smith

Abridged By: Davena Briggs

Producer: Tracy Neale

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930418]

The Marsh Arabs by Wilfred Thesiger.

In this "classic of travel writing" the author recalls the time that he spent living in the Southern

Marshes of Iraq during the 1950s. Atmospheric and evocative, the book records a water-dominated way of life that had remained unchanged for 5,000 years, but which is now almost destroyed. Read by David Holt. Producer Anne Edyvean

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930418]

Unknown: Wilfred Thesiger.

Read By: David Holt.

Producer: Anne Edyvean

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930425]

Crispin Written and read by Sheila Steafel.

"When I started out as an actress it really irritated me when one of my fellow artistes brought their dog into rehearsal. But that was before.... Crispin." Producer Matthew Walters

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930425]

Unknown: Crispin Written

Read By: Sheila Steafel.

Producer: Matthew Walters

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930502]

Underfoot in Showbusiness

Read by Rosemary leach. Helene Hanff , the author of 84, Charing Cross Road, wrote this delightful account of her early days as a struggling writer on the edge of showbusiness in 1961. Producer Tracey Neale

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930502]

Read By: Rosemary Leach.

Read By: Helene Hanff

Producer: Tracey Neale

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930509]

Give War a Chance byPJO'Rourke.

Described variously as intellectual thug, neofascist and moral satirist, O'Rourke's thoughts on the Gulf War offer something to offend everyone.

Read by Stuart Milligan.

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930509]

Read By: Stuart Milligan.

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930516]

The Attack on the Dams by J E Morpurgo.

On the 50th anniversary of the "Dambusters" raid, Francis Matthews reads from the biography of Barnes Wallis , inventor of the bouncing bombs. Producer David Benedictus

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930516]

Unknown: Francis Matthews

Unknown: Barnes Wallis

Producer: David Benedictus

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930531]

A Tango from the Strand Crawford Logan reads an extract from H V Morton's In Search of England.

Producer Patrick Rayner

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930531]

Unknown: Crawford Logan

Producer: Patrick Rayner

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930601]

Niall Sean O'Casey 's youngest son Niall died of leukaemia a few weeks before his

21st birthday. For four years the great Irish playwright kept a private journal of his grief. Read by Denys Hawthorne. Producer Ned Chaillet

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930601]

Unknown: Sean O'Casey

Read By: Denys Hawthorne.

Producer: Ned Chaillet

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930602]

Lowlife by Jeffrey Bernard.

From the columns of The

Spectator, the paunchy underbelly of Soho life seen through the red-rimmed eyes of Jeffrey Bernard and read by his brother, Oliver.

Producer David Benedictus

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930602]

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930603]

Fragments of a Life The Road to Auschwitz

Written and read by Hedi Fried.

Hedi Fried and her younger sister survived

Auschwitz, slave labour in Hamburg and Bergen-

Belsen. This is their story. Translated by Michael Meyer Abridged and directed by Andy Jordan

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930603]

Read By: Hedi Fried.

Translated By: Michael Meyer

Directed By: Andy Jordan

Genome: [r4 Bd=19931114]

First in a series of six readings from non-fiction works.

The Expense o/Gbry: A Life of John Reith by Ian Mcintyre. The author reads of Lord Reith's last days at the BBC from his new biography. Producer Ned Chaillet

Genome: [r4 Bd=19931114]

Unknown: John Reith

Unknown: Ian McIntyre.

Producer: Ned Chaillet

Genome: [r4 Bd=19931121]

A Clown Too Many. As a tribute to the entertainer who died earlier this year, Ken Dodd reads from Les Dawson's autobiography.

Producer Enyd Williams

Genome: [r4 Bd=19931121]

Unknown: Ken Dodd

Producer: Enyd Williams

Genome: [r4 Bd=19931128]

The Life of the Bee. In the extraordinary complexity of the hive, Maurice Maeterlinck traces an astonishing analogue for human destiny. Read by Samuel West. Producer David Benedictus

Genome: [r4 Bd=19931128]

Unknown: Maurice Maeterlinck

Read By: Samuel West.

Producer: David Benedictus

Genome: [r4 Bd=19931205]

Fundamental Masculinity. Earlier this year Kenneth Tynan 's provocative essay on the female bottom was broadcast.

Tonight poets Katie Campbell and Fiona Pitt-Kethley return the compliment with their own views on the male posterior. Producer David Benedictus

Eating Children. An extract from the autobiography of feminist writer Jill Tweedie who died of motor neurone disease last month. Producer David Benedictus

Genome: [r4 Bd=19931219]

Unknown: Jill Tweedie

Producer: David Benedictus

Genome: [r4 Bd=19940320]

Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo )y Susan Sontag. In August 1993, Susan Sontag produced Samuel Beckett 's great modern play with a multi-ethnic cast in a bombed-out theatre to packed audiences. This is her account of the production, and a detailed look at a city under perilous siege. Producer Hilary Dunn

Childhood by Lily Herzberg. The South African diamond rush of the 1930s is the setting for this moving tale; a child's account of one of the very few female diamond diggers of the time - who was also a mother.

Producer Andy Jordan

Contributors

Unknown: Margery Mason

Unknown: Lily Herzberg.

Producer: Andy Jordan

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910331]

Unknown: Margery Mason

Unknown: Lily Herzberg.

Producer: Andy Jordan

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910407]

Further Travels with Henry Written and read by Collin Johnson.

Following last year's popular Travels with Henry, the story continues, describing the author's honeymoon and his experiences performing his one-man Henry V to farmers in New England, USA.

Director Andy Jordan. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown: Henry Written

Read By: Collin Johnson.

Director: Andy Jordan.

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910407]

Unknown: Henry Written

Read By: Collin Johnson.

Director: Andy Jordan.

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910414]

Queen Victoria Is Very III

Janet Henfrey reads from the autobiography of Katherine Moore , who went up to Oxford in 1918, the year of the great flu epidemic. At that time, women were not allowed to take degrees as women's education was not considered important or even very proper. Producer Tessa Kendall

Contributors

Unknown: Janet Henfrey

Unknown: Katherine Moore

Producer: Tessa Kendall

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910414]

Unknown: Janet Henfrey

Unknown: Katherine Moore

Producer: Tessa Kendall

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910421]

Pip Torrens reads from The Prickotty Bush by Montagu Don.

A diary of his work creating a garden in Herefordshire.

Abridged by Georgina Brown Producer Marilyn Imrie

Contributors

Unknown: Montagu Don.

Abridged By: Georgina Brown

Producer: Marilyn Imrie

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910421]

Unknown: Montagu Don.

Abridged By: Georgina Brown

Producer: Marilyn Imrie

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910428]

To School Through the Fields: an Irish

Country Childhood Maggie Shevlin reads from Alice Taylor 's account of growing up on a farm in Co Cork, Ireland, in the 1940s. Abridged by Georgina Brown Producer Marilyn Imne

Contributors

Unknown: Maggie Shevlin

Unknown: Alice Taylor

Abridged By: Georgina Brown

Producer: Marilyn Imne

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910428]

Unknown: Maggie Shevlin

Unknown: Alice Taylor

Abridged By: Georgina Brown

Producer: Marilyn Imne

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910505]

The last in the series of non-fictional readings. A Short Walk from Harrods

Dirk Bogarde surveys the full circle that has brought him back to London.

Abridged from a piece in the Independent on Sunday Director Janet Whitaker

Contributors

Director: Janet Whitaker

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910505]

Director: Janet Whitaker

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910707]

The return of the series of non-fictional readings.

A Passage to England by Nirad C Chaudhuri.

In 1955, Chaudhuri spent five brief weeks discovering England. In this extract he presents his view of the English attitude towards love.

Read by Sam Dastor. Abridged by Georgina Brown Producer Marilyn Imrie

Contributors

Unknown: Nirad C Chaudhuri.

Read By: Sam Dastor.

Abridged By: Georgina Brown

Producer: Marilyn Imrie

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910707]

Unknown: Nirad C Chaudhuri.

Read By: Sam Dastor.

Abridged By: Georgina Brown

Producer: Marilyn Imrie

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910714]

Pack My Bag

William Rushton reads from Henry Green 's autobiography.

In 1939, anticipating the outbreak of war and despairing of surviving, Henry Green set down recollections of upper-class English life in the 1920s and 30s.

Abridged by Georgina Brown Producer Marilyn Imrie

Contributors

Unknown: William Rushton

Unknown: Henry Green

Unknown: Henry Green

Abridged By: Georgina Brown

Producer: Marilyn Imrie

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910714]

Unknown: William Rushton

Unknown: Henry Green

Unknown: Henry Green

Abridged By: Georgina Brown

Producer: Marilyn Imrie

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910721]

Clem and the Clubs

Written and read by Margery Mason.

A touching narrative about the author's entree into the acting profession in 1927 - performing in working men's clubs with her mother's company, the Nora Clements Players. Director Andy Jordan. Stereo

Contributors

Read By: Margery Mason.

Director: Andy Jordan.

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910721]

Read By: Margery Mason.

Director: Andy Jordan.

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910728]

Scenes from an Immaculate Mistake

Reading from his recent autobiography, novelist

Paul Bailey remembers a formidable but generous mother, the effect of Charles Dickens on his father, the delights of the wireless and a curious need to walk the whole of London.

Producer Duncan Minshull

Contributors

Unknown: Paul Bailey

Unknown: Charles Dickens

Producer: Duncan Minshull

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910728]

Unknown: Paul Bailey

Unknown: Charles Dickens

Producer: Duncan Minshull

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910731]

Pip Torrens reads from The Prickotty Bush, the story of a garden by Montagu Don. The book is his diary of the work involved in creating a garden in Herefordshire. Abridged by Georgina Brown Producer Marilyn Imrie

Contributors

Unknown: Pip Torrens

Garden By: Montagu Don.

Abridged By: Georgina Brown

Producer: Marilyn Imrie

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910731]

Unknown: Pip Torrens

Garden By: Montagu Don.

Abridged By: Georgina Brown

Producer: Marilyn Imrie

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910804]

Journey Home to Mother Gonga

Written and read by Carolyn Nandy.

Set in Ghana, a tale of dignity and humour in the face of death, and the fulfilling of one culture's customs while living in another.

Director Andy Jordan. Stereo

Contributors

Read By: Carolyn Nandy.

Director: Andy Jordan.

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910804]

Read By: Carolyn Nandy.

Director: Andy Jordan.

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910807]

Peter Langan : a Memoir

Brian Sewell reads from Peter Langan 's A Life with Food.

Abridged by Brian Sewell Producer Ned Chaillet Stereo

Contributors

Unknown: Peter Langan

Unknown: Brian Sewell

Unknown: Peter Langan

Abridged By: Brian Sewell

Producer: Ned Chaillet

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910807]

Unknown: Peter Langan

Unknown: Brian Sewell

Unknown: Peter Langan

Abridged By: Brian Sewell

Producer: Ned Chaillet

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910811]

Into the Stratosphere by Auguste Piccard.

Read by Chris Wilkinson. The first ascent into the stratosphere in a balloon with an airtight cabin in 1930 was to have far-reaching consequences for modern aviation.

South African novelist and essayist Olive Schreiner has a claim to be the pioneer of modem feminism. Gillian Cally reads extracts from her writings.

Producer Dave Sheasby. Stereo

GENOME: [R4 BD=19920726]

Unknown: Olive Schreiner

Producer: Dave Sheasby.

GENOME: [R4 BD=19920802]

Niall Sean O'Casey 's son Niall died of leukaemia a few weeks before his 21st brithday. For four years the Irish playwright kept a journal of his grief, which was finally published last year. Denys Hawthorne reads.

Producer Ned Chaillet. Stereo

GENOME: [R4 BD=19920802]

Unknown: Niall Sean O'Casey

Unknown: Denys Hawthorne

Producer: Ned Chaillet.

GENOME: [R4 BD=19920809]

John Barleycorn

Jack London was larger than life in everything, including his drinking binges. Three years before he died, he published this account of his struggles and obsession with the bottle. Read by Bob Sherman.

Producer Brian Miller. Stereo

GENOME: [R4 BD=19920809]

Unknown: John Barleycorn

Unknown: Jack London

Read By: Bob Sherman.

Producer: Brian Miller.

GENOME: [R4 BD=19920816]

A Turn in the South

On the 15th anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley , novelist and travel writer V S Naipaul recalls a visit to Graceland, the Presley mansion on a hill, and Nashville, the capital of country music.

Read by Sam Dastor. Producer Will Cantopher Stereo

GENOME: [R4 BD=19920816]

Unknown: Elvis Presley

Read By: Sam Dastor.

GENOME: [R4 BD=19920823]

Adventures of a Super-Tramp by W H Davies.

These unique memoirs were published in 1908 by a young Englishman who went "on the road" for several years in the USA in the 1890s and early 1900s. The gentle and warm style has made this collection a favourite for more than 80 years.

Read by Hugh Dickson. Producer Brian Miller. Stereo

GENOME: [R4 BD=19920823]

Unknown: H Davies.

Read By: Hugh Dickson.

Producer: Brian Miller.

GENOME: [R4 BD=19920906]

Fragments of a Life The Road to Auschwitz

Hedi Fried reads abridged extracts from her autobiography.

The true and harrowing story of what happened to one Jewish family during the Nazi occupation of Hungary during the Second World War. Director Andy Jordan Stereo

GENOME: [R4 BD=19920906]

Director: Andy Jordan

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The Wonderful

Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands Mary Seacole 's autobiography, a bestseller when it was originally published in 1857, chronicles her travels and experiences for a Victorian public. Bom in Jamaica in 1805, Mary was a notable figure in the Crimean War and deserves to stand beside Florence

Nightingale but is seldom accorded even a footnote today. Yet, this remarkable lady earned medals for her bravery and won the admiration of the Victorian world she lived in. Read by Joan-Ann Maynard.

Abridged by Elizabeth Bradbury Producer Tracey Neale

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Unknown: Mrs Seacole

Unknown: Mary Seacole

Read By: Joan-Ann Maynard.

Abridged By: Elizabeth Bradbury

Producer: Tracey Neale

GENOME: [R4 BD=19921115]

A new series begins with El Alamein by Peter Luke. On the moonlit night of 23 October 1942, at 10.00pm precisely, the British launched their infantry attack at el-Alamein. One of the young officers, the playwright Peter Luke , remembers the battle as he muddled through it. Producer John Theocharis.

Stereo

GENOME: [R4 BD=19921115]

Unknown: El Alamein

Unknown: Peter Luke.

Unknown: Peter Luke

Producer: John Theocharis.

GENOME: [R4 BD=19921122]

Low Life by Jeffrey Bernard.

From the columns of The

Spectator, the paunchy underbelly of Soho life seen through the red-rimmed eyes of Jeffrey Bernard and read by his brother. Oliver.

Producer David Benedictus

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Unknown: Jeffrey Bernard.

Unknown: Jeffrey Bernard

Producer: David Benedictus

GENOME: [R4 BD=19921129]

Goodbye Little England

Clancy Sigal was a refugee from McCarthyism who made his home and his living in Britain for 30 years. On the eve of Major's accession to power he returned to California.

This is a wry look back at those years and a permanent foreigner's view of life in Britain as lived today.

Read by Lewis Hancock. Producer Dave Sheasby

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Read By: Lewis Hancock.

Producer: Dave Sheasby

GENOME: [R4 BD=19921206]

No Fur, No Feathers At the beginning of last year the actress

Caroline Blakiston set about learning her lines for the role of the eccentric governess in Chekhov's The Cherry

Orchard. This time though the lines were in the original Russian. A couple of months later she was on stage by the Black Sea, the lone English performer with the provincial theatre company of Taganrog,

Chekhov's birthplace. As opening night arrived, the cast greeted her with: "No fur, no feathers" - the Russian equivalent of "break a leg".

Producer Richard Bannerman

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Unknown: Caroline Blakiston

Producer: Richard Bannerman

GENOME: [R4 BD=19921220]

American Journals by Albert Camus.

In the late 1940s, Camus travelled first to the United States, then to South

America. His journal of these journeys provides a fascinating insight into the mind of one of the most original writers of the century. Read by Clive Merrison.

Abridged and produced by Cherry Cookson. Stereo

GENOME: [R4 BD=19921220]

Unknown: Albert Camus.

Read By: Clive Merrison.

Produced By: Cherry Cookson.

GENOME: [R4 BD=19921227]

A Smell of Burning

In December 1942, a 17-year-old Russian girl left her high school to join an Airfield Maintenance

Battalion in the Leningrad region. For three years

Inna Froug kept a diary: the account of a spirited girl quickly maturing in the face of harsh reality. Abridged and read by Elizabeth Morgan.

Director John Theocharis

GENOME: [R4 BD=19921227]

Unknown: Inna Froug

Read By: Elizabeth Morgan.

Director: John Theocharis

GENOME: [R4 BD=19930321]

The Tight Red

Rope

The subject of motherhood inspires poems of extraordinary passion and vitality. Katie Campbell presents a special collection for Mother's Day: from the formal musings of the 17th-century literary ladies to the elation and despair of contemporary women poets. The readers are Jenny Agutter and Adjoa Andoh.

Producer Claire Grove

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Unknown: Katie Campbell

Unknown: Jenny Agutter

Producer: Claire Grove

GENOME: [R4 BD=19930328]

The Endless Knot by Kurt Diemberger.

Read by Frederick Jaeger. A mountaineering love story, Kurt Diemberger 's account of climbing K2 with Julie Tullis is one of high drama and heroic endurance, of triumph followed by tragedy. Adapted and produced by Keith Hindell

GENOME: [R4 BD=19930328]

Unknown: Kurt Diemberger.

Read By: Frederick Jaeger.

Unknown: Kurt Diemberger

Unknown: Julie Tullis

Produced By: Keith Hindell

GENOME: [R4 BD=19930404]

Evenings in the Orchestra by Hector Berlioz. Berlioz often travelled across Europe with an orchestra, and the tales told on these travels were recorded by him and published in 1852. Tim Pigott-Smith reads a selection of these stories.

The scene is the orchestra pit of a provincial opera house, the cast the conductor and musicians. Translated by C R Fortescue Abridged by Davena Briggs Producer Tracy Neale

GENOME: [R4 BD=19930404]

Unknown: Tim Pigott-Smith

Abridged By: Davena Briggs

Producer: Tracy Neale

GENOME: [R4 BD=19930418]

The Marsh Arabs by Wilfred Thesiger.

In this "classic of travel writing" the author recalls the time that he spent living in the Southern

Marshes of Iraq during the 1950s. Atmospheric and evocative, the book records a water-dominated way of life that had remained unchanged for 5,000 years, but which is now almost destroyed. Read by David Holt. Producer Anne Edyvean

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Unknown: Wilfred Thesiger.

Read By: David Holt.

Producer: Anne Edyvean

GENOME: [R4 BD=19930425]

Crispin Written and read by Sheila Steafel.

"When I started out as an actress it really irritated me when one of my fellow artistes brought their dog into rehearsal. But that was before.... Crispin." Producer Matthew Walters

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Unknown: Crispin Written

Read By: Sheila Steafel.

Producer: Matthew Walters

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Underfoot in Showbusiness

Read by Rosemary leach. Helene Hanff , the author of 84, Charing Cross Road, wrote this delightful account of her early days as a struggling writer on the edge of showbusiness in 1961. Producer Tracey Neale

GENOME: [R4 BD=19930502]

Read By: Rosemary Leach.

Read By: Helene Hanff

Producer: Tracey Neale

GENOME: [R4 BD=19930509]

Give War a Chance byPJO'Rourke.

Described variously as intellectual thug, neofascist and moral satirist, O'Rourke's thoughts on the Gulf War offer something to offend everyone.

Read by Stuart Milligan.

GENOME: [R4 BD=19930509]

Read By: Stuart Milligan.

GENOME: [R4 BD=19930516]

The Attack on the Dams by J E Morpurgo.

On the 50th anniversary of the "Dambusters" raid, Francis Matthews reads from the biography of Barnes Wallis , inventor of the bouncing bombs. Producer David Benedictus

GENOME: [R4 BD=19930516]

Unknown: Francis Matthews

Unknown: Barnes Wallis

Producer: David Benedictus

GENOME: [R4 BD=19930531]

A Tango from the Strand Crawford Logan reads an extract from H V Morton's In Search of England.

Producer Patrick Rayner

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Unknown: Crawford Logan

Producer: Patrick Rayner

GENOME: [R4 BD=19930601]

Niall Sean O'Casey 's youngest son Niall died of leukaemia a few weeks before his

21st birthday. For four years the great Irish playwright kept a private journal of his grief. Read by Denys Hawthorne. Producer Ned Chaillet

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Unknown: Sean O'Casey

Read By: Denys Hawthorne.

Producer: Ned Chaillet

GENOME: [R4 BD=19930602]

Lowlife by Jeffrey Bernard.

From the columns of The

Spectator, the paunchy underbelly of Soho life seen through the red-rimmed eyes of Jeffrey Bernard and read by his brother, Oliver.

Producer David Benedictus

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Unknown: Jeffrey Bernard.

Unknown: Jeffrey Bernard

Producer: David Benedictus

GENOME: [R4 BD=19930603]

Fragments of a Life The Road to Auschwitz

Written and read by Hedi Fried.

Hedi Fried and her younger sister survived

Auschwitz, slave labour in Hamburg and Bergen-

Belsen. This is their story. Translated by Michael Meyer Abridged and directed by Andy Jordan

GENOME: [R4 BD=19930603]

Read By: Hedi Fried.

Read By: Hedi Fried

Translated By: Michael Meyer

Directed By: Andy Jordan

GENOME: [R4 BD=19931114]

First in a series of six readings from non-fiction works.

The Expense o/Gbry: A Life of John Reith by Ian Mcintyre. The author reads of Lord Reith's last days at the BBC from his new biography. Producer Ned Chaillet

GENOME: [R4 BD=19931114]

Unknown: John Reith

Unknown: Ian McIntyre.

Producer: Ned Chaillet

GENOME: [R4 BD=19931121]

A Clown Too Many. As a tribute to the entertainer who died earlier this year, Ken Dodd reads from Les Dawson's autobiography.

Producer Enyd Williams

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Unknown: Ken Dodd

Producer: Enyd Williams

GENOME: [R4 BD=19931128]

The Life of the Bee. In the extraordinary complexity of the hive, Maurice Maeterlinck traces an astonishing analogue for human destiny. Read by Samuel West. Producer David Benedictus

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Unknown: Maurice Maeterlinck

Read By: Samuel West.

Producer: David Benedictus

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Fundamental Masculinity. Earlier this year Kenneth Tynan 's provocative essay on the female bottom was broadcast.

Tonight poets Katie Campbell and Fiona Pitt-Kethley return the compliment with their own views on the male posterior. Producer David Benedictus

Eating Children. An extract from the autobiography of feminist writer Jill Tweedie who died of motor neurone disease last month. Producer David Benedictus

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Unknown: Jill Tweedie

Producer: David Benedictus

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Unknown: Susan Sontag.

Unknown: Susan Sontag

Produced: Samuel Beckett

Producer: Hilary Dunn

GENOME: [R4 BD=19940717]

Etonians and Estonians Jeremy Paxman launches a new series of non-fiction readings with his book Friends in High Places and takes a wry look at the influence of Britain's most famous school upon the Conservative party since the war. Producer Eoin O'Callaghan

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Unknown: Jeremy Paxman

Producer: Eoin O'Callaghan

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Sublime Snuff. A selection of prose and poetry from the 17th century up to the present day on "those pungent grains of titillating dust". Readers Robin Bailey , Roger Frith and Tina Gray Producer Katriona Wade

GENOME: [R4 BD=19940724]

Readers: Robin Bailey

Readers: Roger Frith

Readers: Tina Gray

Producer: Katriona Wade

GENOME: [R4 BD=19940731]

Selections from Good Bones and Murder in the Dark, Margaret Atwood 's witty look at society in the last decade of the century. Readers Shelley Thompson and Cairo Cannon Producer Jocelyn Boxall

GENOME: [R4 BD=19940731]

Unknown: Margaret Atwood

Readers: Shelley Thompson

Producer: Jocelyn Boxall

GENOME: [R4 BD=19940807]

Great Bus Journeys of the World by Alexei Sayle. Producer Jocelyn Boxall

GENOME: [R4 BD=19940807]

Unknown: Alexei Sayle.

Producer: Jocelyn Boxall

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The Worm Forgives the Plough. The late John Stewart Collis always cast a visionary eye over the works of nature. In these extracts, he looks closely at the role played by the ant, the plough, the worm, the clouds and the dunghill. Reader Sean Barrett. Producer Martin Jenkins

GENOME: [R4 BD=19940814]

Unknown: John Stewart Collis

Reader: Sean Barrett.

Producer: Martin Jenkins

GENOME: [R4 BD=19940821]

Going Down by Ed Horton. 1991 was a very special year for Oxford United. ReadbyAdjoaAndoh. Producer Nigel Bryant

GENOME: [R4 BD=19940821]

Unknown: Ed Horton.

Producer: Nigel Bryant

GENOME: [R4 BD=19940828]

The Orion Diaries. Outrage greeted Joe Orton 's plays when he was alive, and his diaries after he was dead. But the journals document a remarkable final year. Read by John Sessions. Producer Ned Chaillet

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Unknown: Joe Orton

Read By: John Sessions.

Producer: Ned Chaillet

GENOME: [R4 BD=19941106]

Kenneth Tynan Letters. Tim Pigott -Smith reads from the letters by the late theatre critic and essayist. producer Michael Earley

Rgaro Here, Figaro There. David Haig reads an extract from the diaries of Freddie Stockdale , manager of Pavilion Opera, a company which performs opera in other people's houses. Producer Cherry Cookson

The Desert of Men/read by David Horovitch. Colin Thubron 's most recent trip was to the countries of Central Asia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. And Merv itself? A place of ghosts and dust and strains of the dutah. Producer Duncan Minshull

GENOME: [R4 BD=19941211]

Read By: David Horovitch.

Read By: Colin Thubron

Producer: Duncan Minshull

GENOME: [R4 BD=19941218]

This Boy's Life. Tobias Wolff reads from his acclaimed memoir describing a coming of age with his extended family in the small town of Concrete. Producer Duncan Minshull

GENOME: [R4 BD=19941218]

Unknown: Tobias Wolff

Producer: Duncan Minshull

GENOME: [R4 BD=19950827]

A miscellaneous series of six readings. Under My Skin by Doris Lessing.

Hannah Gordon reads extracts from the writer's evocative biography about her childhood in Southern Rhodesia.

Producer Julia Butt

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Unknown: Doris Lessing.

Unknown: Hannah Gordon

Producer: Julia Butt

GENOME: [R4 BD=19950903]

Six readings, including autobiography, travelogue and reportage.

2: In My Own Time. Nina Bawden tells the story of her schizophrenic son's life. Producer Mairi Russell

Another chance to hear Sylvia Plath 's letters to her mother as she sets up home in England in the 1960s. Read by Buffy Davies. Producer Lisa Osbome Rpt

GENOME: [R4 BD=19960109]

Unknown: Sylvia Plath.

Unknown: Sylvia Plath

Read By: Buffy Davies.

Producer: Lisa Osbome Rpt

GENOME: [R4 BD=19960116]

Under My Skin by Doris Lessing. "I remember standing there, my whole heart and soul going out and up into those flaming skies, knowing that was where I belonged." Hannah Gordon reads extracts from the writer's biography about her childhood in the bush in 1920s southern Rhodesia. Producer Julia Butt Rpt

GENOME: [R4 BD=19960116]

Unknown: Doris Lessing.

Unknown: Hannah Gordon

Producer: Julia Butt

GENOME: [R4 BD=19960123]

In My Own Time by Nina Bawden.

"Your son is nothing but a shell". Nina Bawden tells the story of her schizophrenic son's troubled life and the repeated failure of the health system in dealing with his illness. Producer Mairi Russell Rpt

GENOME: [R4 BD=19960123]

Unknown: Nina Bawden.

Unknown: Nina Bawden

Producer: Mairi Russell Rpt

GENOME: [R4 BD=19960909]

An Italian Dream by Charles Dickens. The first in a five-part series of classic travels. Read by Derek Jacobi. Producer John Tydeman Repeat

The drums slammed into action, there was a piercing short whistle, the dancers bounced into the air.... Alma GUILLERMOPRIETO's account of the night all Brazil waits for.

Read by Maggie STEED, produced by Duncan MINSHULL.

Subject Categories

readings programmes (programme format)

Broadcast history

12 Aug 1990 20:40-21:00 (RADIO 4)

Contributors

Alma Guillermoprieto (Author)

Duncan Minshull (Producer)

Maggie Steed (rdr)

Recorded on 1990-07-09.

BBC Programme Number: 90DB0082

Producer: D. MINSHULL

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The drums slammed into action, there was a piercing short whistle, the dancers bounced into the air.... Alma GUILLERMOPRIETO's account of the night all Brazil waits for. Read by Maggie STEED, produced by Duncan MINSHULL.

Programme Catalogue - Details: All Parrots Speak

19960102

First broadcast on 1994-11-27

Producer: KATE MCALL

Next in series: THE DESERT OF MERV

Previous in series: FIGARO HERE, FIGARO THERE

Description

John GUERRASIO reads a traveller's tale of psittacine addiction written by Paul BOWLES. Producer Kate McALL.

Subject Categories

readings programmes (programme format)

Broadcast history

27 Nov 1994 20:30-21:00 (RADIO 4)

02 Jan 1996 20:30-21:00 (RADIO 4)

Contributors

Paul Bowles (Author)

Kate Mcall (Producer)

John Guerrasio (rdr)

Recorded on 1994-11-04

John GUERRASIO reads a traveller's tale of psittacine addiction written by Paul BOWLES.

Programme Catalogue - Details: As Others See Us

19960109

AS OTHERS SEE US - LETTERS HOME

First broadcast on 1995-04-23

Producer: L. OSBORNE

Next in series: THE KINGDOM BY THE SEA

Previous in series: LETTERS HOME

Description

Readings presenting Britain through the eyes of settlers and visitors. Part 4: Letters Home by Sylvia PLATH. Read by Buffy DAVIES.

Broadcast history

23 Apr 1995 19:30-20:00 (RADIO 4)

09 Jan 1996 20:30-21:00 (RADIO 4)

Contributors

Sylvia Plath (Author)

Lisa Osborne (Producer)

Buffy Davies (rdr)

Recorded on 1995-02-25

- LETTERS HOME

Producer: L.

OSBORNE

Readings presenting Britain through the eyes of settlers and visitors.

Part 4: Letters Home by Sylvia PLATH.

Read by Buffy DAVIES.

23 Apr 1995 BT=1930 (RADIO 4)

23 Apr 1995 (RADIO 4)

Programme Catalogue - Details: At Sea With The Americas Cup

19900429

BBC Programme Number: 90DB6872

Recorded on 1990-04-24

Producer: S. AVENS

Next in series: A DIARY WITHOUT DATES

Previous in series: AT SEA WITH THE AMERICA'S CUP

See more READING ALOUD programmes (122)

Description

A confirmed landlubber's appraisal of the world's greatest yacht race from P. J. O'ROURKE's 'Holidays In Hell'. Read by Kerry SHALE. Produced by Sally AVENS.

Subject Categories

readings programmes (programme format)

Broadcast history

29 Apr 1990 20:40-21:00 (RADIO 4)

29 Aug 1990 09:40-10:00 (RADIO 4)

Contributors

P O'Rourke (Author)

Sally Avens (Producer)

Kerry Shale (rdr).

Programme Catalogue - Details: At Sea With The Americas Cup

19900429

Producer: S.

AVENS

Next in series: A DIARY WITHOUT DATES

Previous in series: AT SEA WITH THE AMERICA'S CUP

Description

A confirmed landlubber's appraisal of the world's greatest yacht race from P.

SBH:In My Own Time - Nina BAWDEN tells the story of her schizophrenic son's life. Producer: Mairi Russell.

03 Sep 1995 19:30-20:00 (RADIO 4)

Programme Catalogue - Details: Kilvert's Cornish Diary

19900401

BBC Programme Number: 90DC6798

Recorded on 1990-03-07

Producer: J. THEOCHARIS

Notes: CAIRS 383002

Next in series: A LITTLE ATHENS

Previous in series: A JESUIT IN THE TOWER

See more READING ALOUD programmes (122)

Description

SBH:Reading Aloud - KILVERT'S CORNISH DIARY. Christopher Scott reads extracts from the diary of Rev. Francis Kilvert in which he recorded a holiday spent with William and Emma Hocken in Cornwall from 19th July - 5th August 1870. Compiled by H. Colin Davis. Producer: John Theocharis.

'Cricketing Heroes' read by Struan RODGER. I would rather go into a pub with half a dozen North Country cricketers than into all the studios, penthouses, Athenaeum and Saville Clubs in London. I have tried both, so I know.

'Cricketing Heroes' read by Struan RODGER. I would rather go into a pub with half a dozen North Country cricketers than into all the studios, penthouses, Athenaeum and Saville Clubs in London. I have tried both, so I know.

Colin THUBRON's most recent trip was to the countries of Central Asia after the collapse of the USSR. And Merv itself? A place of ghosts, dust and the strains of the Dutah. Read by David HOROVITCH and produced by Duncan MINSHULL.

24 Sep 1995 19:30-20:00 (RADIO 4)

24 Sep 1995 (RADIO 4)

Programme Catalogue - Details: The Fire Of Rome

19901118

BBC Programme Number: 90DB0305

Recorded on 1990-10-31

Producer: S. GRIFFITHS

Next in series: TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK CZECHOSLOVAKIA

Previous in series: STOP THE PRESS I WANT TO GET ON

See more READING ALOUD programmes (122)

Description

Series of non-fiction readings. The account by the great Roman historian Tacitus of the fire of Rome during the reign of Emperor Nero. How far was Nero responsible? Read by John SHRAPNEL.

Subject Categories

readings programmes (programme format)

Broadcast history

18 Nov 1990 20:40-21:00 (RADIO 4)

Contributors

Tacitus (Author)

Stuart Griffiths (Producer)

John Shrapnel (rdr)

Michael Grant (tr)

Producer: S.

GRIFFITHS

Series of non-fiction readings.

The account by the great Roman historian Tacitus of the fire of Rome during the reign of Emperor Nero.

How far was Nero responsible? Read by John SHRAPNEL.

Programme Catalogue - Details: The State Of The Prisons

19900415

BBC Programme Number: 90DB0080

Recorded on 1990-04-09

Producer: R. GREENHAM

Notes: CAIRS 522838

Next in series: SITTING IN THE STALLS, WAITING IN THE WINGS

Previous in series: A LITTLE ATHENS

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Description

SBH:Reading Aloud - The State of the Prisons. John HOWARD's revelations about the appalling prison conditions in 18th century jails. Reader: Hugh Dickson. Producer: Rosie Greenham.

SBH:TRAVELS WITH HENRY: written and read by Collin Johnson. In an amusing and poignant narrative, the author describes his first experiences as a professional actor. Produced for the series Reading Aloud by Andy Jordan.

Programme Catalogue - Details: Under My Skin

19960116

First broadcast on 1995-08-27

Producer: J.

BUTT

Next in series: IN MY OWN TIME

Previous in series: AFTER THE WAR, Episode 6

Description

*Copyright:P.F.

Subject Categories

readings programmes (programme format)

Broadcast history

27 Aug 1995 BT=1930 (RADIO 4)

16 Jan 1996 20:30-21:00 (RADIO 4)

Contributors

Doris Lessing (Author)

Julia Butt (Producer)

Hannah Gordon (rdr)

Recorded on 1995-08-05.

Producer: J. BUTT

27 Aug 1995 19:30-20:00 (RADIO 4)

27 Aug 1995 (RADIO 4)

Programme Catalogue - Details: Waiting In The Wings, Sitting In The Stalls

19900422

Producer: BRYANT, Nigel

Next in series: AT SEA WITH THE AMERICA'S CUP

Previous in series: SITTING IN THE STALLS, WAITING IN THE WINGS

Description

SBH:SITTING IN THE STALLS, WAITING IN THE WINGS from Just some stories for Eleanor by Stephen Pegg.

Childhood by Lily Herzberg. The South African diamond rush of the 1930s is the setting for this moving tale; a child's account of one of the very few female diamond diggers of the time - who was also a mother.

Producer Andy Jordan

Contributors

Unknown: Margery Mason

Unknown: Lily Herzberg.

Producer: Andy Jordan

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Unknown: Margery Mason

Unknown: Lily Herzberg.

Producer: Andy Jordan

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910407]

Further Travels with Henry Written and read by Collin Johnson.

Following last year's popular Travels with Henry, the story continues, describing the author's honeymoon and his experiences performing his one-man Henry V to farmers in New England, USA.

Director Andy Jordan. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown: Henry Written

Read By: Collin Johnson.

Director: Andy Jordan.

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910407]

Unknown: Henry Written

Read By: Collin Johnson.

Director: Andy Jordan.

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910414]

Queen Victoria Is Very III

Janet Henfrey reads from the autobiography of Katherine Moore , who went up to Oxford in 1918, the year of the great flu epidemic. At that time, women were not allowed to take degrees as women's education was not considered important or even very proper. Producer Tessa Kendall

Contributors

Unknown: Janet Henfrey

Unknown: Katherine Moore

Producer: Tessa Kendall

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910414]

Unknown: Janet Henfrey

Unknown: Katherine Moore

Producer: Tessa Kendall

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910421]

Pip Torrens reads from The Prickotty Bush by Montagu Don.

A diary of his work creating a garden in Herefordshire.

Abridged by Georgina Brown Producer Marilyn Imrie

Contributors

Unknown: Montagu Don.

Abridged By: Georgina Brown

Producer: Marilyn Imrie

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910421]

Unknown: Montagu Don.

Abridged By: Georgina Brown

Producer: Marilyn Imrie

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910428]

To School Through the Fields: an Irish

Country Childhood Maggie Shevlin reads from Alice Taylor 's account of growing up on a farm in Co Cork, Ireland, in the 1940s. Abridged by Georgina Brown Producer Marilyn Imne

Contributors

Unknown: Maggie Shevlin

Unknown: Alice Taylor

Abridged By: Georgina Brown

Producer: Marilyn Imne

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910428]

Unknown: Maggie Shevlin

Unknown: Alice Taylor

Abridged By: Georgina Brown

Producer: Marilyn Imne

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910505]

The last in the series of non-fictional readings. A Short Walk from Harrods

Dirk Bogarde surveys the full circle that has brought him back to London.

Abridged from a piece in the Independent on Sunday Director Janet Whitaker

Contributors

Director: Janet Whitaker

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910505]

Director: Janet Whitaker

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910707]

The return of the series of non-fictional readings.

A Passage to England by Nirad C Chaudhuri.

In 1955, Chaudhuri spent five brief weeks discovering England. In this extract he presents his view of the English attitude towards love.

Read by Sam Dastor. Abridged by Georgina Brown Producer Marilyn Imrie

Contributors

Unknown: Nirad C Chaudhuri.

Read By: Sam Dastor.

Abridged By: Georgina Brown

Producer: Marilyn Imrie

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910707]

Unknown: Nirad C Chaudhuri.

Read By: Sam Dastor.

Abridged By: Georgina Brown

Producer: Marilyn Imrie

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910714]

Pack My Bag

William Rushton reads from Henry Green 's autobiography.

In 1939, anticipating the outbreak of war and despairing of surviving, Henry Green set down recollections of upper-class English life in the 1920s and 30s.

Abridged by Georgina Brown Producer Marilyn Imrie

Contributors

Unknown: William Rushton

Unknown: Henry Green

Abridged By: Georgina Brown

Producer: Marilyn Imrie

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910714]

Unknown: William Rushton

Unknown: Henry Green

Abridged By: Georgina Brown

Producer: Marilyn Imrie

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910721]

Clem and the Clubs

Written and read by Margery Mason.

A touching narrative about the author's entree into the acting profession in 1927 - performing in working men's clubs with her mother's company, the Nora Clements Players. Director Andy Jordan. Stereo

Contributors

Read By: Margery Mason.

Director: Andy Jordan.

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910721]

Read By: Margery Mason.

Director: Andy Jordan.

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910728]

Scenes from an Immaculate Mistake

Reading from his recent autobiography, novelist

Paul Bailey remembers a formidable but generous mother, the effect of Charles Dickens on his father, the delights of the wireless and a curious need to walk the whole of London.

Producer Duncan Minshull

Contributors

Unknown: Paul Bailey

Unknown: Charles Dickens

Producer: Duncan Minshull

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910728]

Unknown: Paul Bailey

Unknown: Charles Dickens

Producer: Duncan Minshull

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910731]

Pip Torrens reads from The Prickotty Bush, the story of a garden by Montagu Don. The book is his diary of the work involved in creating a garden in Herefordshire. Abridged by Georgina Brown Producer Marilyn Imrie

Contributors

Unknown: Pip Torrens

Garden By: Montagu Don.

Abridged By: Georgina Brown

Producer: Marilyn Imrie

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910731]

Unknown: Pip Torrens

Garden By: Montagu Don.

Abridged By: Georgina Brown

Producer: Marilyn Imrie

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910804]

Journey Home to Mother Gonga

Written and read by Carolyn Nandy.

Set in Ghana, a tale of dignity and humour in the face of death, and the fulfilling of one culture's customs while living in another.

Director Andy Jordan. Stereo

Contributors

Read By: Carolyn Nandy.

Director: Andy Jordan.

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910804]

Read By: Carolyn Nandy.

Director: Andy Jordan.

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910807]

Peter Langan : a Memoir

Brian Sewell reads from Peter Langan 's A Life with Food.

Abridged by Brian Sewell Producer Ned Chaillet Stereo

Contributors

Unknown: Peter Langan

Unknown: Brian Sewell

Unknown: Peter Langan

Abridged By: Brian Sewell

Producer: Ned Chaillet

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910807]

Unknown: Peter Langan

Unknown: Brian Sewell

Abridged By: Brian Sewell

Producer: Ned Chaillet

Genome: [r4 Bd=19910811]

Into the Stratosphere by Auguste Piccard.

Read by Chris Wilkinson. The first ascent into the stratosphere in a balloon with an airtight cabin in 1930 was to have far-reaching consequences for modern aviation.

South African novelist and essayist Olive Schreiner has a claim to be the pioneer of modem feminism. Gillian Cally reads extracts from her writings.

Producer Dave Sheasby. Stereo

Genome: [r4 Bd=19920726]

Unknown: Olive Schreiner

Producer: Dave Sheasby.

Genome: [r4 Bd=19920802]

Niall Sean O'Casey 's son Niall died of leukaemia a few weeks before his 21st brithday. For four years the Irish playwright kept a journal of his grief, which was finally published last year. Denys Hawthorne reads.

Producer Ned Chaillet. Stereo

Genome: [r4 Bd=19920802]

Unknown: Niall Sean O'Casey

Unknown: Denys Hawthorne

Producer: Ned Chaillet.

Genome: [r4 Bd=19920809]

John Barleycorn

Jack London was larger than life in everything, including his drinking binges. Three years before he died, he published this account of his struggles and obsession with the bottle. Read by Bob Sherman.

Producer Brian Miller. Stereo

Genome: [r4 Bd=19920809]

Unknown: John Barleycorn

Unknown: Jack London

Read By: Bob Sherman.

Producer: Brian Miller.

Genome: [r4 Bd=19920816]

A Turn in the South

On the 15th anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley , novelist and travel writer V S Naipaul recalls a visit to Graceland, the Presley mansion on a hill, and Nashville, the capital of country music.

Read by Sam Dastor. Producer Will Cantopher Stereo

Genome: [r4 Bd=19920816]

Unknown: Elvis Presley

Read By: Sam Dastor.

Genome: [r4 Bd=19920823]

Adventures of a Super-Tramp by W H Davies.

These unique memoirs were published in 1908 by a young Englishman who went "on the road" for several years in the USA in the 1890s and early 1900s. The gentle and warm style has made this collection a favourite for more than 80 years.

Read by Hugh Dickson. Producer Brian Miller. Stereo

Genome: [r4 Bd=19920823]

Unknown: H Davies.

Read By: Hugh Dickson.

Producer: Brian Miller.

Genome: [r4 Bd=19920906]

Fragments of a Life The Road to Auschwitz

Hedi Fried reads abridged extracts from her autobiography.

The true and harrowing story of what happened to one Jewish family during the Nazi occupation of Hungary during the Second World War. Director Andy Jordan Stereo

Genome: [r4 Bd=19920906]

Director: Andy Jordan

Genome: [r4 Bd=19920913]

The Wonderful

Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands Mary Seacole 's autobiography, a bestseller when it was originally published in 1857, chronicles her travels and experiences for a Victorian public. Bom in Jamaica in 1805, Mary was a notable figure in the Crimean War and deserves to stand beside Florence

Nightingale but is seldom accorded even a footnote today. Yet, this remarkable lady earned medals for her bravery and won the admiration of the Victorian world she lived in. Read by Joan-Ann Maynard.

Abridged by Elizabeth Bradbury Producer Tracey Neale

Genome: [r4 Bd=19920913]

Unknown: Mrs Seacole

Unknown: Mary Seacole

Read By: Joan-Ann Maynard.

Abridged By: Elizabeth Bradbury

Producer: Tracey Neale

Genome: [r4 Bd=19921115]

A new series begins with El Alamein by Peter Luke. On the moonlit night of 23 October 1942, at 10.00pm precisely, the British launched their infantry attack at el-Alamein. One of the young officers, the playwright Peter Luke , remembers the battle as he muddled through it. Producer John Theocharis.

Stereo

Genome: [r4 Bd=19921115]

Unknown: El Alamein

Unknown: Peter Luke.

Producer: John Theocharis.

Genome: [r4 Bd=19921122]

Low Life by Jeffrey Bernard.

From the columns of The

Spectator, the paunchy underbelly of Soho life seen through the red-rimmed eyes of Jeffrey Bernard and read by his brother. Oliver.

Producer David Benedictus

Genome: [r4 Bd=19921122]

Unknown: Jeffrey Bernard.

Producer: David Benedictus

Genome: [r4 Bd=19921129]

Goodbye Little England

Clancy Sigal was a refugee from McCarthyism who made his home and his living in Britain for 30 years. On the eve of Major's accession to power he returned to California.

This is a wry look back at those years and a permanent foreigner's view of life in Britain as lived today.

Read by Lewis Hancock. Producer Dave Sheasby

Genome: [r4 Bd=19921129]

Read By: Lewis Hancock.

Producer: Dave Sheasby

Genome: [r4 Bd=19921206]

No Fur, No Feathers At the beginning of last year the actress

Caroline Blakiston set about learning her lines for the role of the eccentric governess in Chekhov's The Cherry

Orchard. This time though the lines were in the original Russian. A couple of months later she was on stage by the Black Sea, the lone English performer with the provincial theatre company of Taganrog,

Chekhov's birthplace. As opening night arrived, the cast greeted her with: "No fur, no feathers" - the Russian equivalent of "break a leg".

Producer Richard Bannerman

Genome: [r4 Bd=19921206]

Unknown: Caroline Blakiston

Producer: Richard Bannerman

Genome: [r4 Bd=19921220]

American Journals by Albert Camus.

In the late 1940s, Camus travelled first to the United States, then to South

America. His journal of these journeys provides a fascinating insight into the mind of one of the most original writers of the century. Read by Clive Merrison.

Abridged and produced by Cherry Cookson. Stereo

Genome: [r4 Bd=19921220]

Unknown: Albert Camus.

Read By: Clive Merrison.

Produced By: Cherry Cookson.

Genome: [r4 Bd=19921227]

A Smell of Burning

In December 1942, a 17-year-old Russian girl left her high school to join an Airfield Maintenance

Battalion in the Leningrad region. For three years

Inna Froug kept a diary: the account of a spirited girl quickly maturing in the face of harsh reality. Abridged and read by Elizabeth Morgan.

Director John Theocharis

Genome: [r4 Bd=19921227]

Unknown: Inna Froug

Read By: Elizabeth Morgan.

Director: John Theocharis

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930321]

The Tight Red

Rope

The subject of motherhood inspires poems of extraordinary passion and vitality. Katie Campbell presents a special collection for Mother's Day: from the formal musings of the 17th-century literary ladies to the elation and despair of contemporary women poets. The readers are Jenny Agutter and Adjoa Andoh.

Producer Claire Grove

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930321]

Unknown: Katie Campbell

Unknown: Jenny Agutter

Producer: Claire Grove

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930328]

The Endless Knot by Kurt Diemberger.

Read by Frederick Jaeger. A mountaineering love story, Kurt Diemberger 's account of climbing K2 with Julie Tullis is one of high drama and heroic endurance, of triumph followed by tragedy. Adapted and produced by Keith Hindell

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930328]

Unknown: Kurt Diemberger.

Read By: Frederick Jaeger.

Unknown: Julie Tullis

Produced By: Keith Hindell

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930404]

Evenings in the Orchestra by Hector Berlioz. Berlioz often travelled across Europe with an orchestra, and the tales told on these travels were recorded by him and published in 1852. Tim Pigott-Smith reads a selection of these stories.

The scene is the orchestra pit of a provincial opera house, the cast the conductor and musicians. Translated by C R Fortescue Abridged by Davena Briggs Producer Tracy Neale

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930404]

Unknown: Tim Pigott-Smith

Abridged By: Davena Briggs

Producer: Tracy Neale

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930418]

The Marsh Arabs by Wilfred Thesiger.

In this "classic of travel writing" the author recalls the time that he spent living in the Southern

Marshes of Iraq during the 1950s. Atmospheric and evocative, the book records a water-dominated way of life that had remained unchanged for 5,000 years, but which is now almost destroyed. Read by David Holt. Producer Anne Edyvean

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930418]

Unknown: Wilfred Thesiger.

Read By: David Holt.

Producer: Anne Edyvean

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930425]

Crispin Written and read by Sheila Steafel.

"When I started out as an actress it really irritated me when one of my fellow artistes brought their dog into rehearsal. But that was before.... Crispin." Producer Matthew Walters

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930425]

Unknown: Crispin Written

Read By: Sheila Steafel.

Producer: Matthew Walters

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930502]

Underfoot in Showbusiness

Read by Rosemary leach. Helene Hanff , the author of 84, Charing Cross Road, wrote this delightful account of her early days as a struggling writer on the edge of showbusiness in 1961. Producer Tracey Neale

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930502]

Read By: Rosemary Leach.

Read By: Helene Hanff

Producer: Tracey Neale

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930509]

Give War a Chance byPJO'Rourke.

Described variously as intellectual thug, neofascist and moral satirist, O'Rourke's thoughts on the Gulf War offer something to offend everyone.

Read by Stuart Milligan.

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930509]

Read By: Stuart Milligan.

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930516]

The Attack on the Dams by J E Morpurgo.

On the 50th anniversary of the "Dambusters" raid, Francis Matthews reads from the biography of Barnes Wallis , inventor of the bouncing bombs. Producer David Benedictus

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930516]

Unknown: Francis Matthews

Unknown: Barnes Wallis

Producer: David Benedictus

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930531]

A Tango from the Strand Crawford Logan reads an extract from H V Morton's In Search of England.

Producer Patrick Rayner

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930531]

Unknown: Crawford Logan

Producer: Patrick Rayner

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930601]

Niall Sean O'Casey 's youngest son Niall died of leukaemia a few weeks before his

21st birthday. For four years the great Irish playwright kept a private journal of his grief. Read by Denys Hawthorne. Producer Ned Chaillet

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930601]

Unknown: Sean O'Casey

Read By: Denys Hawthorne.

Producer: Ned Chaillet

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930602]

Lowlife by Jeffrey Bernard.

From the columns of The

Spectator, the paunchy underbelly of Soho life seen through the red-rimmed eyes of Jeffrey Bernard and read by his brother, Oliver.

Producer David Benedictus

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930602]

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930603]

Fragments of a Life The Road to Auschwitz

Written and read by Hedi Fried.

Hedi Fried and her younger sister survived

Auschwitz, slave labour in Hamburg and Bergen-

Belsen. This is their story. Translated by Michael Meyer Abridged and directed by Andy Jordan

Genome: [r4 Bd=19930603]

Read By: Hedi Fried.

Translated By: Michael Meyer

Directed By: Andy Jordan

Genome: [r4 Bd=19931114]

First in a series of six readings from non-fiction works.

The Expense o/Gbry: A Life of John Reith by Ian Mcintyre. The author reads of Lord Reith's last days at the BBC from his new biography. Producer Ned Chaillet

Genome: [r4 Bd=19931114]

Unknown: John Reith

Unknown: Ian McIntyre.

Producer: Ned Chaillet

Genome: [r4 Bd=19931121]

A Clown Too Many. As a tribute to the entertainer who died earlier this year, Ken Dodd reads from Les Dawson's autobiography.

Producer Enyd Williams

Genome: [r4 Bd=19931121]

Unknown: Ken Dodd

Producer: Enyd Williams

Genome: [r4 Bd=19931128]

The Life of the Bee. In the extraordinary complexity of the hive, Maurice Maeterlinck traces an astonishing analogue for human destiny. Read by Samuel West. Producer David Benedictus

Genome: [r4 Bd=19931128]

Unknown: Maurice Maeterlinck

Read By: Samuel West.

Producer: David Benedictus

Genome: [r4 Bd=19931205]

Fundamental Masculinity. Earlier this year Kenneth Tynan 's provocative essay on the female bottom was broadcast.

Tonight poets Katie Campbell and Fiona Pitt-Kethley return the compliment with their own views on the male posterior. Producer David Benedictus

Eating Children. An extract from the autobiography of feminist writer Jill Tweedie who died of motor neurone disease last month. Producer David Benedictus

Genome: [r4 Bd=19931219]

Unknown: Jill Tweedie

Producer: David Benedictus

Genome: [r4 Bd=19940320]

Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo )y Susan Sontag. In August 1993, Susan Sontag produced Samuel Beckett 's great modern play with a multi-ethnic cast in a bombed-out theatre to packed audiences. This is her account of the production, and a detailed look at a city under perilous siege. Producer Hilary Dunn

Childhood by Lily Herzberg. The South African diamond rush of the 1930s is the setting for this moving tale; a child's account of one of the very few female diamond diggers of the time - who was also a mother.

Producer Andy Jordan

Contributors

Unknown: Margery Mason

Unknown: Lily Herzberg.

Producer: Andy Jordan

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910331]

Unknown: Margery Mason

Unknown: Lily Herzberg.

Producer: Andy Jordan

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910407]

Further Travels with Henry Written and read by Collin Johnson.

Following last year's popular Travels with Henry, the story continues, describing the author's honeymoon and his experiences performing his one-man Henry V to farmers in New England, USA.

Director Andy Jordan. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown: Henry Written

Read By: Collin Johnson.

Director: Andy Jordan.

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910407]

Unknown: Henry Written

Read By: Collin Johnson.

Director: Andy Jordan.

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910414]

Queen Victoria Is Very III

Janet Henfrey reads from the autobiography of Katherine Moore , who went up to Oxford in 1918, the year of the great flu epidemic. At that time, women were not allowed to take degrees as women's education was not considered important or even very proper. Producer Tessa Kendall

Contributors

Unknown: Janet Henfrey

Unknown: Katherine Moore

Producer: Tessa Kendall

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910414]

Unknown: Janet Henfrey

Unknown: Katherine Moore

Producer: Tessa Kendall

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910421]

Pip Torrens reads from The Prickotty Bush by Montagu Don.

A diary of his work creating a garden in Herefordshire.

Abridged by Georgina Brown Producer Marilyn Imrie

Contributors

Unknown: Montagu Don.

Abridged By: Georgina Brown

Producer: Marilyn Imrie

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910421]

Unknown: Montagu Don.

Abridged By: Georgina Brown

Producer: Marilyn Imrie

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910428]

To School Through the Fields: an Irish

Country Childhood Maggie Shevlin reads from Alice Taylor 's account of growing up on a farm in Co Cork, Ireland, in the 1940s. Abridged by Georgina Brown Producer Marilyn Imne

Contributors

Unknown: Maggie Shevlin

Unknown: Alice Taylor

Abridged By: Georgina Brown

Producer: Marilyn Imne

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910428]

Unknown: Maggie Shevlin

Unknown: Alice Taylor

Abridged By: Georgina Brown

Producer: Marilyn Imne

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910505]

The last in the series of non-fictional readings. A Short Walk from Harrods

Dirk Bogarde surveys the full circle that has brought him back to London.

Abridged from a piece in the Independent on Sunday Director Janet Whitaker

Contributors

Director: Janet Whitaker

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910505]

Director: Janet Whitaker

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910707]

The return of the series of non-fictional readings.

A Passage to England by Nirad C Chaudhuri.

In 1955, Chaudhuri spent five brief weeks discovering England. In this extract he presents his view of the English attitude towards love.

Read by Sam Dastor. Abridged by Georgina Brown Producer Marilyn Imrie

Contributors

Unknown: Nirad C Chaudhuri.

Read By: Sam Dastor.

Abridged By: Georgina Brown

Producer: Marilyn Imrie

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910707]

Unknown: Nirad C Chaudhuri.

Read By: Sam Dastor.

Abridged By: Georgina Brown

Producer: Marilyn Imrie

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910714]

Pack My Bag

William Rushton reads from Henry Green 's autobiography.

In 1939, anticipating the outbreak of war and despairing of surviving, Henry Green set down recollections of upper-class English life in the 1920s and 30s.

Abridged by Georgina Brown Producer Marilyn Imrie

Contributors

Unknown: William Rushton

Unknown: Henry Green

Unknown: Henry Green

Abridged By: Georgina Brown

Producer: Marilyn Imrie

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910714]

Unknown: William Rushton

Unknown: Henry Green

Unknown: Henry Green

Abridged By: Georgina Brown

Producer: Marilyn Imrie

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910721]

Clem and the Clubs

Written and read by Margery Mason.

A touching narrative about the author's entree into the acting profession in 1927 - performing in working men's clubs with her mother's company, the Nora Clements Players. Director Andy Jordan. Stereo

Contributors

Read By: Margery Mason.

Director: Andy Jordan.

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910721]

Read By: Margery Mason.

Director: Andy Jordan.

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910728]

Scenes from an Immaculate Mistake

Reading from his recent autobiography, novelist

Paul Bailey remembers a formidable but generous mother, the effect of Charles Dickens on his father, the delights of the wireless and a curious need to walk the whole of London.

Producer Duncan Minshull

Contributors

Unknown: Paul Bailey

Unknown: Charles Dickens

Producer: Duncan Minshull

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910728]

Unknown: Paul Bailey

Unknown: Charles Dickens

Producer: Duncan Minshull

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910731]

Pip Torrens reads from The Prickotty Bush, the story of a garden by Montagu Don. The book is his diary of the work involved in creating a garden in Herefordshire. Abridged by Georgina Brown Producer Marilyn Imrie

Contributors

Unknown: Pip Torrens

Garden By: Montagu Don.

Abridged By: Georgina Brown

Producer: Marilyn Imrie

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910731]

Unknown: Pip Torrens

Garden By: Montagu Don.

Abridged By: Georgina Brown

Producer: Marilyn Imrie

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910804]

Journey Home to Mother Gonga

Written and read by Carolyn Nandy.

Set in Ghana, a tale of dignity and humour in the face of death, and the fulfilling of one culture's customs while living in another.

Director Andy Jordan. Stereo

Contributors

Read By: Carolyn Nandy.

Director: Andy Jordan.

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910804]

Read By: Carolyn Nandy.

Director: Andy Jordan.

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910807]

Peter Langan : a Memoir

Brian Sewell reads from Peter Langan 's A Life with Food.

Abridged by Brian Sewell Producer Ned Chaillet Stereo

Contributors

Unknown: Peter Langan

Unknown: Brian Sewell

Unknown: Peter Langan

Abridged By: Brian Sewell

Producer: Ned Chaillet

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910807]

Unknown: Peter Langan

Unknown: Brian Sewell

Unknown: Peter Langan

Abridged By: Brian Sewell

Producer: Ned Chaillet

GENOME: [R4 BD=19910811]

Into the Stratosphere by Auguste Piccard.

Read by Chris Wilkinson. The first ascent into the stratosphere in a balloon with an airtight cabin in 1930 was to have far-reaching consequences for modern aviation.

South African novelist and essayist Olive Schreiner has a claim to be the pioneer of modem feminism. Gillian Cally reads extracts from her writings.

Producer Dave Sheasby. Stereo

GENOME: [R4 BD=19920726]

Unknown: Olive Schreiner

Producer: Dave Sheasby.

GENOME: [R4 BD=19920802]

Niall Sean O'Casey 's son Niall died of leukaemia a few weeks before his 21st brithday. For four years the Irish playwright kept a journal of his grief, which was finally published last year. Denys Hawthorne reads.

Producer Ned Chaillet. Stereo

GENOME: [R4 BD=19920802]

Unknown: Niall Sean O'Casey

Unknown: Denys Hawthorne

Producer: Ned Chaillet.

GENOME: [R4 BD=19920809]

John Barleycorn

Jack London was larger than life in everything, including his drinking binges. Three years before he died, he published this account of his struggles and obsession with the bottle. Read by Bob Sherman.

Producer Brian Miller. Stereo

GENOME: [R4 BD=19920809]

Unknown: John Barleycorn

Unknown: Jack London

Read By: Bob Sherman.

Producer: Brian Miller.

GENOME: [R4 BD=19920816]

A Turn in the South

On the 15th anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley , novelist and travel writer V S Naipaul recalls a visit to Graceland, the Presley mansion on a hill, and Nashville, the capital of country music.

Read by Sam Dastor. Producer Will Cantopher Stereo

GENOME: [R4 BD=19920816]

Unknown: Elvis Presley

Read By: Sam Dastor.

GENOME: [R4 BD=19920823]

Adventures of a Super-Tramp by W H Davies.

These unique memoirs were published in 1908 by a young Englishman who went "on the road" for several years in the USA in the 1890s and early 1900s. The gentle and warm style has made this collection a favourite for more than 80 years.

Read by Hugh Dickson. Producer Brian Miller. Stereo

GENOME: [R4 BD=19920823]

Unknown: H Davies.

Read By: Hugh Dickson.

Producer: Brian Miller.

GENOME: [R4 BD=19920906]

Fragments of a Life The Road to Auschwitz

Hedi Fried reads abridged extracts from her autobiography.

The true and harrowing story of what happened to one Jewish family during the Nazi occupation of Hungary during the Second World War. Director Andy Jordan Stereo

GENOME: [R4 BD=19920906]

Director: Andy Jordan

GENOME: [R4 BD=19920913]

The Wonderful

Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands Mary Seacole 's autobiography, a bestseller when it was originally published in 1857, chronicles her travels and experiences for a Victorian public. Bom in Jamaica in 1805, Mary was a notable figure in the Crimean War and deserves to stand beside Florence

Nightingale but is seldom accorded even a footnote today. Yet, this remarkable lady earned medals for her bravery and won the admiration of the Victorian world she lived in. Read by Joan-Ann Maynard.

Abridged by Elizabeth Bradbury Producer Tracey Neale

GENOME: [R4 BD=19920913]

Unknown: Mrs Seacole

Unknown: Mary Seacole

Read By: Joan-Ann Maynard.

Abridged By: Elizabeth Bradbury

Producer: Tracey Neale

GENOME: [R4 BD=19921115]

A new series begins with El Alamein by Peter Luke. On the moonlit night of 23 October 1942, at 10.00pm precisely, the British launched their infantry attack at el-Alamein. One of the young officers, the playwright Peter Luke , remembers the battle as he muddled through it. Producer John Theocharis.

Stereo

GENOME: [R4 BD=19921115]

Unknown: El Alamein

Unknown: Peter Luke.

Unknown: Peter Luke

Producer: John Theocharis.

GENOME: [R4 BD=19921122]

Low Life by Jeffrey Bernard.

From the columns of The

Spectator, the paunchy underbelly of Soho life seen through the red-rimmed eyes of Jeffrey Bernard and read by his brother. Oliver.

Producer David Benedictus

GENOME: [R4 BD=19921122]

Unknown: Jeffrey Bernard.

Unknown: Jeffrey Bernard

Producer: David Benedictus

GENOME: [R4 BD=19921129]

Goodbye Little England

Clancy Sigal was a refugee from McCarthyism who made his home and his living in Britain for 30 years. On the eve of Major's accession to power he returned to California.

This is a wry look back at those years and a permanent foreigner's view of life in Britain as lived today.

Read by Lewis Hancock. Producer Dave Sheasby

GENOME: [R4 BD=19921129]

Read By: Lewis Hancock.

Producer: Dave Sheasby

GENOME: [R4 BD=19921206]

No Fur, No Feathers At the beginning of last year the actress

Caroline Blakiston set about learning her lines for the role of the eccentric governess in Chekhov's The Cherry

Orchard. This time though the lines were in the original Russian. A couple of months later she was on stage by the Black Sea, the lone English performer with the provincial theatre company of Taganrog,

Chekhov's birthplace. As opening night arrived, the cast greeted her with: "No fur, no feathers" - the Russian equivalent of "break a leg".

Producer Richard Bannerman

GENOME: [R4 BD=19921206]

Unknown: Caroline Blakiston

Producer: Richard Bannerman

GENOME: [R4 BD=19921220]

American Journals by Albert Camus.

In the late 1940s, Camus travelled first to the United States, then to South

America. His journal of these journeys provides a fascinating insight into the mind of one of the most original writers of the century. Read by Clive Merrison.

Abridged and produced by Cherry Cookson. Stereo

GENOME: [R4 BD=19921220]

Unknown: Albert Camus.

Read By: Clive Merrison.

Produced By: Cherry Cookson.

GENOME: [R4 BD=19921227]

A Smell of Burning

In December 1942, a 17-year-old Russian girl left her high school to join an Airfield Maintenance

Battalion in the Leningrad region. For three years

Inna Froug kept a diary: the account of a spirited girl quickly maturing in the face of harsh reality. Abridged and read by Elizabeth Morgan.

Director John Theocharis

GENOME: [R4 BD=19921227]

Unknown: Inna Froug

Read By: Elizabeth Morgan.

Director: John Theocharis

GENOME: [R4 BD=19930321]

The Tight Red

Rope

The subject of motherhood inspires poems of extraordinary passion and vitality. Katie Campbell presents a special collection for Mother's Day: from the formal musings of the 17th-century literary ladies to the elation and despair of contemporary women poets. The readers are Jenny Agutter and Adjoa Andoh.

Producer Claire Grove

GENOME: [R4 BD=19930321]

Unknown: Katie Campbell

Unknown: Jenny Agutter

Producer: Claire Grove

GENOME: [R4 BD=19930328]

The Endless Knot by Kurt Diemberger.

Read by Frederick Jaeger. A mountaineering love story, Kurt Diemberger 's account of climbing K2 with Julie Tullis is one of high drama and heroic endurance, of triumph followed by tragedy. Adapted and produced by Keith Hindell

GENOME: [R4 BD=19930328]

Unknown: Kurt Diemberger.

Read By: Frederick Jaeger.

Unknown: Kurt Diemberger

Unknown: Julie Tullis

Produced By: Keith Hindell

GENOME: [R4 BD=19930404]

Evenings in the Orchestra by Hector Berlioz. Berlioz often travelled across Europe with an orchestra, and the tales told on these travels were recorded by him and published in 1852. Tim Pigott-Smith reads a selection of these stories.

The scene is the orchestra pit of a provincial opera house, the cast the conductor and musicians. Translated by C R Fortescue Abridged by Davena Briggs Producer Tracy Neale

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Unknown: Tim Pigott-Smith

Abridged By: Davena Briggs

Producer: Tracy Neale

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The Marsh Arabs by Wilfred Thesiger.

In this "classic of travel writing" the author recalls the time that he spent living in the Southern

Marshes of Iraq during the 1950s. Atmospheric and evocative, the book records a water-dominated way of life that had remained unchanged for 5,000 years, but which is now almost destroyed. Read by David Holt. Producer Anne Edyvean

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Unknown: Wilfred Thesiger.

Read By: David Holt.

Producer: Anne Edyvean

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Crispin Written and read by Sheila Steafel.

"When I started out as an actress it really irritated me when one of my fellow artistes brought their dog into rehearsal. But that was before.... Crispin." Producer Matthew Walters

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Unknown: Crispin Written

Read By: Sheila Steafel.

Producer: Matthew Walters

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Underfoot in Showbusiness

Read by Rosemary leach. Helene Hanff , the author of 84, Charing Cross Road, wrote this delightful account of her early days as a struggling writer on the edge of showbusiness in 1961. Producer Tracey Neale

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Read By: Rosemary Leach.

Read By: Helene Hanff

Producer: Tracey Neale

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Give War a Chance byPJO'Rourke.

Described variously as intellectual thug, neofascist and moral satirist, O'Rourke's thoughts on the Gulf War offer something to offend everyone.

Read by Stuart Milligan.

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Read By: Stuart Milligan.

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The Attack on the Dams by J E Morpurgo.

On the 50th anniversary of the "Dambusters" raid, Francis Matthews reads from the biography of Barnes Wallis , inventor of the bouncing bombs. Producer David Benedictus

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Unknown: Francis Matthews

Unknown: Barnes Wallis

Producer: David Benedictus

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A Tango from the Strand Crawford Logan reads an extract from H V Morton's In Search of England.

Producer Patrick Rayner

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Unknown: Crawford Logan

Producer: Patrick Rayner

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Niall Sean O'Casey 's youngest son Niall died of leukaemia a few weeks before his

21st birthday. For four years the great Irish playwright kept a private journal of his grief. Read by Denys Hawthorne. Producer Ned Chaillet

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Unknown: Sean O'Casey

Read By: Denys Hawthorne.

Producer: Ned Chaillet

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Lowlife by Jeffrey Bernard.

From the columns of The

Spectator, the paunchy underbelly of Soho life seen through the red-rimmed eyes of Jeffrey Bernard and read by his brother, Oliver.

Producer David Benedictus

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Unknown: Jeffrey Bernard.

Unknown: Jeffrey Bernard

Producer: David Benedictus

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Fragments of a Life The Road to Auschwitz

Written and read by Hedi Fried.

Hedi Fried and her younger sister survived

Auschwitz, slave labour in Hamburg and Bergen-

Belsen. This is their story. Translated by Michael Meyer Abridged and directed by Andy Jordan

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Read By: Hedi Fried.

Read By: Hedi Fried

Translated By: Michael Meyer

Directed By: Andy Jordan

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First in a series of six readings from non-fiction works.

The Expense o/Gbry: A Life of John Reith by Ian Mcintyre. The author reads of Lord Reith's last days at the BBC from his new biography. Producer Ned Chaillet

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Unknown: John Reith

Unknown: Ian McIntyre.

Producer: Ned Chaillet

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A Clown Too Many. As a tribute to the entertainer who died earlier this year, Ken Dodd reads from Les Dawson's autobiography.

Producer Enyd Williams

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Unknown: Ken Dodd

Producer: Enyd Williams

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The Life of the Bee. In the extraordinary complexity of the hive, Maurice Maeterlinck traces an astonishing analogue for human destiny. Read by Samuel West. Producer David Benedictus

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Unknown: Maurice Maeterlinck

Read By: Samuel West.

Producer: David Benedictus

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Fundamental Masculinity. Earlier this year Kenneth Tynan 's provocative essay on the female bottom was broadcast.

Tonight poets Katie Campbell and Fiona Pitt-Kethley return the compliment with their own views on the male posterior. Producer David Benedictus

Eating Children. An extract from the autobiography of feminist writer Jill Tweedie who died of motor neurone disease last month. Producer David Benedictus

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Unknown: Jill Tweedie

Producer: David Benedictus

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Unknown: Susan Sontag.

Unknown: Susan Sontag

Produced: Samuel Beckett

Producer: Hilary Dunn

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Etonians and Estonians Jeremy Paxman launches a new series of non-fiction readings with his book Friends in High Places and takes a wry look at the influence of Britain's most famous school upon the Conservative party since the war. Producer Eoin O'Callaghan

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Unknown: Jeremy Paxman

Producer: Eoin O'Callaghan

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Sublime Snuff. A selection of prose and poetry from the 17th century up to the present day on "those pungent grains of titillating dust". Readers Robin Bailey , Roger Frith and Tina Gray Producer Katriona Wade

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Readers: Robin Bailey

Readers: Roger Frith

Readers: Tina Gray

Producer: Katriona Wade

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Selections from Good Bones and Murder in the Dark, Margaret Atwood 's witty look at society in the last decade of the century. Readers Shelley Thompson and Cairo Cannon Producer Jocelyn Boxall

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Unknown: Margaret Atwood

Readers: Shelley Thompson

Producer: Jocelyn Boxall

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Great Bus Journeys of the World by Alexei Sayle. Producer Jocelyn Boxall

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Unknown: Alexei Sayle.

Producer: Jocelyn Boxall

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The Worm Forgives the Plough. The late John Stewart Collis always cast a visionary eye over the works of nature. In these extracts, he looks closely at the role played by the ant, the plough, the worm, the clouds and the dunghill. Reader Sean Barrett. Producer Martin Jenkins

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Unknown: John Stewart Collis

Reader: Sean Barrett.

Producer: Martin Jenkins

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Going Down by Ed Horton. 1991 was a very special year for Oxford United. ReadbyAdjoaAndoh. Producer Nigel Bryant

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Unknown: Ed Horton.

Producer: Nigel Bryant

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The Orion Diaries. Outrage greeted Joe Orton 's plays when he was alive, and his diaries after he was dead. But the journals document a remarkable final year. Read by John Sessions. Producer Ned Chaillet

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Unknown: Joe Orton

Read By: John Sessions.

Producer: Ned Chaillet

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Kenneth Tynan Letters. Tim Pigott -Smith reads from the letters by the late theatre critic and essayist. producer Michael Earley

Rgaro Here, Figaro There. David Haig reads an extract from the diaries of Freddie Stockdale , manager of Pavilion Opera, a company which performs opera in other people's houses. Producer Cherry Cookson

The Desert of Men/read by David Horovitch. Colin Thubron 's most recent trip was to the countries of Central Asia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. And Merv itself? A place of ghosts and dust and strains of the dutah. Producer Duncan Minshull

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Read By: David Horovitch.

Read By: Colin Thubron

Producer: Duncan Minshull

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This Boy's Life. Tobias Wolff reads from his acclaimed memoir describing a coming of age with his extended family in the small town of Concrete. Producer Duncan Minshull

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Unknown: Tobias Wolff

Producer: Duncan Minshull

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A miscellaneous series of six readings. Under My Skin by Doris Lessing.

Hannah Gordon reads extracts from the writer's evocative biography about her childhood in Southern Rhodesia.

Producer Julia Butt

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Unknown: Doris Lessing.

Unknown: Hannah Gordon

Producer: Julia Butt

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Six readings, including autobiography, travelogue and reportage.

2: In My Own Time. Nina Bawden tells the story of her schizophrenic son's life. Producer Mairi Russell

Another chance to hear Sylvia Plath 's letters to her mother as she sets up home in England in the 1960s. Read by Buffy Davies. Producer Lisa Osbome Rpt

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Unknown: Sylvia Plath.

Unknown: Sylvia Plath

Read By: Buffy Davies.

Producer: Lisa Osbome Rpt

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Under My Skin by Doris Lessing. "I remember standing there, my whole heart and soul going out and up into those flaming skies, knowing that was where I belonged." Hannah Gordon reads extracts from the writer's biography about her childhood in the bush in 1920s southern Rhodesia. Producer Julia Butt Rpt

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Unknown: Doris Lessing.

Unknown: Hannah Gordon

Producer: Julia Butt

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In My Own Time by Nina Bawden.

"Your son is nothing but a shell". Nina Bawden tells the story of her schizophrenic son's troubled life and the repeated failure of the health system in dealing with his illness. Producer Mairi Russell Rpt

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Unknown: Nina Bawden.

Unknown: Nina Bawden

Producer: Mairi Russell Rpt

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An Italian Dream by Charles Dickens. The first in a five-part series of classic travels. Read by Derek Jacobi. Producer John Tydeman Repeat

The drums slammed into action, there was a piercing short whistle, the dancers bounced into the air.... Alma GUILLERMOPRIETO's account of the night all Brazil waits for.

Read by Maggie STEED, produced by Duncan MINSHULL.

Subject Categories

readings programmes (programme format)

Broadcast history

12 Aug 1990 20:40-21:00 (RADIO 4)

Contributors

Alma Guillermoprieto (Author)

Duncan Minshull (Producer)

Maggie Steed (rdr)

Recorded on 1990-07-09.

BBC Programme Number: 90DB0082

Producer: D. MINSHULL

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The drums slammed into action, there was a piercing short whistle, the dancers bounced into the air.... Alma GUILLERMOPRIETO's account of the night all Brazil waits for. Read by Maggie STEED, produced by Duncan MINSHULL.

Programme Catalogue - Details: All Parrots Speak

19960102

First broadcast on 1994-11-27

Producer: KATE MCALL

Next in series: THE DESERT OF MERV

Previous in series: FIGARO HERE, FIGARO THERE

Description

John GUERRASIO reads a traveller's tale of psittacine addiction written by Paul BOWLES. Producer Kate McALL.

Subject Categories

readings programmes (programme format)

Broadcast history

27 Nov 1994 20:30-21:00 (RADIO 4)

02 Jan 1996 20:30-21:00 (RADIO 4)

Contributors

Paul Bowles (Author)

Kate Mcall (Producer)

John Guerrasio (rdr)

Recorded on 1994-11-04

John GUERRASIO reads a traveller's tale of psittacine addiction written by Paul BOWLES.

Programme Catalogue - Details: As Others See Us

19960109

AS OTHERS SEE US - LETTERS HOME

First broadcast on 1995-04-23

Producer: L. OSBORNE

Next in series: THE KINGDOM BY THE SEA

Previous in series: LETTERS HOME

Description

Readings presenting Britain through the eyes of settlers and visitors. Part 4: Letters Home by Sylvia PLATH. Read by Buffy DAVIES.

Broadcast history

23 Apr 1995 19:30-20:00 (RADIO 4)

09 Jan 1996 20:30-21:00 (RADIO 4)

Contributors

Sylvia Plath (Author)

Lisa Osborne (Producer)

Buffy Davies (rdr)

Recorded on 1995-02-25

- LETTERS HOME

Producer: L.

OSBORNE

Readings presenting Britain through the eyes of settlers and visitors.

Part 4: Letters Home by Sylvia PLATH.

Read by Buffy DAVIES.

23 Apr 1995 BT=1930 (RADIO 4)

23 Apr 1995 (RADIO 4)

Programme Catalogue - Details: At Sea With The Americas Cup

19900429

BBC Programme Number: 90DB6872

Recorded on 1990-04-24

Producer: S. AVENS

Next in series: A DIARY WITHOUT DATES

Previous in series: AT SEA WITH THE AMERICA'S CUP

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Description

A confirmed landlubber's appraisal of the world's greatest yacht race from P. J. O'ROURKE's 'Holidays In Hell'. Read by Kerry SHALE. Produced by Sally AVENS.

Subject Categories

readings programmes (programme format)

Broadcast history

29 Apr 1990 20:40-21:00 (RADIO 4)

29 Aug 1990 09:40-10:00 (RADIO 4)

Contributors

P O'Rourke (Author)

Sally Avens (Producer)

Kerry Shale (rdr).

Programme Catalogue - Details: At Sea With The Americas Cup

19900429

Producer: S.

AVENS

Next in series: A DIARY WITHOUT DATES

Previous in series: AT SEA WITH THE AMERICA'S CUP

Description

A confirmed landlubber's appraisal of the world's greatest yacht race from P.

SBH:In My Own Time - Nina BAWDEN tells the story of her schizophrenic son's life. Producer: Mairi Russell.

03 Sep 1995 19:30-20:00 (RADIO 4)

Programme Catalogue - Details: Kilvert's Cornish Diary

19900401

BBC Programme Number: 90DC6798

Recorded on 1990-03-07

Producer: J. THEOCHARIS

Notes: CAIRS 383002

Next in series: A LITTLE ATHENS

Previous in series: A JESUIT IN THE TOWER

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Description

SBH:Reading Aloud - KILVERT'S CORNISH DIARY. Christopher Scott reads extracts from the diary of Rev. Francis Kilvert in which he recorded a holiday spent with William and Emma Hocken in Cornwall from 19th July - 5th August 1870. Compiled by H. Colin Davis. Producer: John Theocharis.

'Cricketing Heroes' read by Struan RODGER. I would rather go into a pub with half a dozen North Country cricketers than into all the studios, penthouses, Athenaeum and Saville Clubs in London. I have tried both, so I know.

'Cricketing Heroes' read by Struan RODGER. I would rather go into a pub with half a dozen North Country cricketers than into all the studios, penthouses, Athenaeum and Saville Clubs in London. I have tried both, so I know.

Colin THUBRON's most recent trip was to the countries of Central Asia after the collapse of the USSR. And Merv itself? A place of ghosts, dust and the strains of the Dutah. Read by David HOROVITCH and produced by Duncan MINSHULL.

24 Sep 1995 19:30-20:00 (RADIO 4)

24 Sep 1995 (RADIO 4)

Programme Catalogue - Details: The Fire Of Rome

19901118

BBC Programme Number: 90DB0305

Recorded on 1990-10-31

Producer: S. GRIFFITHS

Next in series: TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK CZECHOSLOVAKIA

Previous in series: STOP THE PRESS I WANT TO GET ON

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Description

Series of non-fiction readings. The account by the great Roman historian Tacitus of the fire of Rome during the reign of Emperor Nero. How far was Nero responsible? Read by John SHRAPNEL.

Subject Categories

readings programmes (programme format)

Broadcast history

18 Nov 1990 20:40-21:00 (RADIO 4)

Contributors

Tacitus (Author)

Stuart Griffiths (Producer)

John Shrapnel (rdr)

Michael Grant (tr)

Producer: S.

GRIFFITHS

Series of non-fiction readings.

The account by the great Roman historian Tacitus of the fire of Rome during the reign of Emperor Nero.

How far was Nero responsible? Read by John SHRAPNEL.

Programme Catalogue - Details: The State Of The Prisons

19900415

BBC Programme Number: 90DB0080

Recorded on 1990-04-09

Producer: R. GREENHAM

Notes: CAIRS 522838

Next in series: SITTING IN THE STALLS, WAITING IN THE WINGS

Previous in series: A LITTLE ATHENS

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Description

SBH:Reading Aloud - The State of the Prisons. John HOWARD's revelations about the appalling prison conditions in 18th century jails. Reader: Hugh Dickson. Producer: Rosie Greenham.

SBH:TRAVELS WITH HENRY: written and read by Collin Johnson. In an amusing and poignant narrative, the author describes his first experiences as a professional actor. Produced for the series Reading Aloud by Andy Jordan.

Programme Catalogue - Details: Under My Skin

19960116

First broadcast on 1995-08-27

Producer: J.

BUTT

Next in series: IN MY OWN TIME

Previous in series: AFTER THE WAR, Episode 6

Description

*Copyright:P.F.

Subject Categories

readings programmes (programme format)

Broadcast history

27 Aug 1995 BT=1930 (RADIO 4)

16 Jan 1996 20:30-21:00 (RADIO 4)

Contributors

Doris Lessing (Author)

Julia Butt (Producer)

Hannah Gordon (rdr)

Recorded on 1995-08-05.

Producer: J. BUTT

27 Aug 1995 19:30-20:00 (RADIO 4)

27 Aug 1995 (RADIO 4)

Programme Catalogue - Details: Waiting In The Wings, Sitting In The Stalls

19900422

Producer: BRYANT, Nigel

Next in series: AT SEA WITH THE AMERICA'S CUP

Previous in series: SITTING IN THE STALLS, WAITING IN THE WINGS

Description

SBH:SITTING IN THE STALLS, WAITING IN THE WINGS from Just some stories for Eleanor by Stephen Pegg.